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Re:Is everything falling apart? by jen20 on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:16PM (#31207127)
In the UK the retirement age of 65 (for men) was set when life expectancy was 64. Now life expectancy is 81, and the retirement age is only 66.

Completely untenable when the generation retiring has also taken the lions share of property wealth, imposed student debt upon and consistently voted against the interests of the generation paying for their retirement.

Re:Is everything falling apart? by TimPC on Friday April 29, 2022 @02:36PM (#31209035)
These figures are highly misleading though because life expectancy includes significant outliers dragging the number down from infant mortality rates which declined over the same period. It is not the case that your life expectancy given reaching age 60 has increased by anywhere near as much as 17 years over the same time period.